Bing

The second-ranked search engine is getting a new chatbot interface that attempts to synthesize information from sites across the web.

In a demonstration, the query “Will the Ikea Flippen loveseat fit into my 2019 Honda Odyssey if I fold down the seats?” elicited an AI-powered response that used details about the love seat’s measurements and the SUV’s cargo space drawn from webpages to estimate that the furniture “might fit with the second or third rows folded.” The company is asking people to sign up for a wider-ranging launch, which will occur in the coming weeks. [Bing](https://www.wired.com/tag/bing), is getting an AI refresh.

Microsoft threw down a direct challenge to Google on Tuesday with an overhaul of its Bing search engine that incorporates artificial intelligence advances ...

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“AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “ ...

With the Edge Sidebar, you can ask for a summary of a lengthy financial report to get the key takeaways – and then use the chat function to ask for a comparison to a competing company’s financials and automatically put it in a table. The work we are doing with OpenAI builds on our company’s yearslong effort to ensure that our AI systems are responsible by design. After that, you can ask it to help you update the tone, format and length of the post. The new Bing can generate the content to help you. We’ve also applied the AI model to our core Bing search ranking engine, which led to the largest jump in relevance in two decades. The chat experience empowers you to refine your search until you get the complete answer you are looking for by asking for more details, clarity and ideas – with links available so you can immediately act on your decisions. We’re reimagining how you interact with search, browser and chat by pulling them into a unified experience. The new Bing also cites all its sources, so you’re able to see links to the web content it references. We have developed a proprietary way of working with the OpenAI model that allows us to best leverage its power. Bing reviews results from across the web to find and summarize the answer you’re looking for. For example, you can get detailed instructions for how to substitute eggs for another ingredient in a cake you are baking right in that moment, without scrolling through multiple results. We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a revamp of its Bing search engine and Edge web browser powered by artificial intelligence, weeks after it confirmed plans to ...

On Monday, Google unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT. With the new Bing, a user could search for TVs to buy in a new way. The updated Microsoft Edge browser will have the Bing capabilities built in, allowing users to chat with the search tool on the side of a web page, to ask questions about the page or compare it with content from across the web. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses,” Pichai wrote. In a separate blog post, OpenAI said the multi-year investment will be used to “develop AI that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful.” Many have speculated the AI technology behind ChatGPT could cause a massive shake-up in the online search industry. “We know we wont be able to answer every question every single time,” Mehdi said. The updated Bing is expected to be made available for the public to try on Tuesday for limited queries, with a small group of users having unlimited access. everyday we want to bring out new things, and most importantly, we want to have a lot of fun innovating in search because it’s high time.” The company describes the new capabilities as a sort of “co-pilot” to help users navigate the web. The updates come as the viral success of ChatGPT has sparked a wave of interest in AI chatbot tools. In partnership with OpenAI, Bing will run on a more powerful large language model than the one that underpins ChatGPT.

Microsoft, in partnership with OpenAI, launched an upgraded AI-powered Edge browser and Bing search engine that users can chat with and receive essay-like ...

Later in January, [Microsoft teased today's announcement](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/), saying it planned to deploy its AI model “across our consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology.” [announced a partnership](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) and strategic stake in a competitor to OpenAI, and has launched its own chatbot called Bard. “Google has the advantage currently over Microsoft in the consumer technologies business, while Microsoft has the edge in the business technologies markets. OpenAI believes its technology has [widely distributed economic benefits](https://openai.com/charter/). The answers are generated by information on the internet related to any question and then composed in conversational prose. “You can draw the parallels to the launch of the Netscape browser and Microsoft being caught off-guard. “We're reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need," Google said in an announcement posted on YouTube. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI is “going to reshape the largest software category on planet earth, which I’ve been working on for a long time and which we are very excited about — search. Microsoft also updated Edge with AI capabilities and a new look, and added two new functionalities: chat and compose. "Edge can understand the web page you’re on and adapts accordingly," Microsoft said. The new AI-powered search capability will generate answers similar to how ChatGPT does, the company said. The new, AI-powered search engine and Edge browser are available in preview now at

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its powerful AI tool ChatGPT will now be used in its search service Bing. Google unveiled its own AI tool — a competitor ...

And I was standing there looking at a computer screen, and I said to the project manager, OK, well, what if I asked it something obviously untrue - right? OK, so say you want to plan a five-day vacation to Mexico with the new service, right? Soon, people who use Bing will be able to use a tool that's sort of like talking to a real human. And, you know, the first real test of that will be with its search engine Bing. Before you Google it, it's the search engine that Microsoft released more than a decade ago. Executives hope that'll help it unseat Google and become the top search engine of the future.

Microsoft is introducing ChatGPT-like capabilities to its Bing search engine and Edge browser. The integration of ChatGPT technology is expected to ...

The interface can run alongside any webpage and interact with it. Bing with the AI co-pilot is now available for a limited preview on desktop, and a mobile version will be available soon. The chat interface Microsoft demonstrated in Bing is available as a sidebar feature in Edge, allowing users to access it without navigating to the Bing website. The preview will be expanded to millions of users in the near future, and a mobile version will be available soon. The new Bing includes a chatbot that behaves similarly to ChatGPT, allowing users to interact with Bing in a natural language. Microsoft announced today that it is bringing cutting-edge AI capabilities to its Bing search engine, with the addition of a new ChatGPT-like feature.

Microsoft said Bing and the Edge browser will be boosted by capabilities similar to ChatGPT, shortly after Google shared its own AI plans.

“It’s no surprise that the two largest software companies in the world are racing to develop and release their own generative AI solutions,” Liang said. The rapid rise of ChatGPT has led to these tech giants scrambling for the upper hand. The new version of Bing is available in limited preview for desktop users. The Edge browser, meanwhile, is also getting an AI boost with new chat and compose features. “AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,” said Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella. Google also plans to incorporate AI into its search engine, similar to Microsoft.

The launch of ChatGPT last year appears to have accelerated what tech giants had planned for artificial intelligence, with Google and now Microsoft ...

Microsoft is counting on its belief that its AI tech is the best - it says the new Bing is running on a "next-generation large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT", which it has dubbed Prometheus. [How AI could change the way we search the web](https://news.sky.com/story/google-it-no-more-how-ai-could-change-the-way-we-search-the-web-12794175) Microsoft - an early investor in OpenAI - has described its new Bing features as "an AI copilot for the web". At a launch event for the new AI-powered services, senior Microsoft figures said the search experience had not changed for 20 years, in a dig at its rivals. [Microsoft](https://news.sky.com/topic/microsoft-7552) has long been a giant of the computing industry, it has lagged behind Microsoft unveils new Bing powered by ChatGPT and takes aim at Google in bid to change how we search the web

Microsoft is starting to roll out its new Bing experience containing a chatbot powered by OpenAI. It's sometimes unwilling to do things that ChatGPT will.

Clicking it tells the software to clear out the context from earlier in the conversation, Mehdi said. [current version](https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+is+the+largest+software+category) of Bing to identify the largest software category, to which it said the answer is "enterprise software" with a citation to [Statista](https://www.statista.com/markets/418/topic/484/software/#overview). Gaining that much muscle mass could "require a lot of genetic potential, steroids, or both," Bing noted, linking out to an article from the Healthline website about the subject. At times the Bing chatbot opted not to do things that ChatGPT would do. Microsoft wants users to provide feedback on its new features so the company can refine them, Yusuf Mehdi, a corporate vice president, said in an interview. And the new chat feature will say that "one could argue that search advertising is the largest software category in the world by revenue," and hedges by noting there are many ways to evaluate different kinds of software. I'm a 125-pound male who is 5 feet 8 inches, and I'd like to gain 25 pounds of muscle." Bing not only presents lists of cinema, music, and literature representing German Expressionism, but it also gives users extra context about the artistic movement. When that prompt is entered into ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool generates three bulleted lists detailing examples of German Expressionism in film, music and literature. And it's similar to ChatGPT in that it provides a lot more information than you might expect from a traditional search. The new Bing can at times be more helpful, or at least more entertaining, than the usual blue links in search results. "This is the largest software category that exists, and it's incredibly profitable, incredibly large and still growing," Amy Hood, Microsoft's chief financial officer, said on the call.

The event comes as the race to develop and deploy AI technology heats up in the tech sector. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an ...

Please do not attempt to do so.” However, one of the links provided in the annotation of its answer brought me to a YouTube video with apparent instructions for building a pipe bomb. Microsoft says it has developed the tool in keeping with its existing responsible AI principles, and made efforts to avoid its potential misuse. [OpenAI](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/tech/chatgpt-plus/index.html) — the company behind ChatGPT in which Microsoft has [invested billions](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/tech/microsoft-invests-chatgpt-openai/index.html) — on a more advanced version of the technology underlying the viral chatbot tool. The homepage of the new Bing feels familiar: you can type a query into the search bar and it returns a list of links, images and other results like a typical search engine. For example, I asked it, “Can you tell me why vaccines cause autism?” to see how it would react to a common medical misinformation claim, and it responded: “My apologies, I don’t know how to discuss this topic. But the second and third time, it wouldn’t write the email, instead saying something like, “sorry, I can’t do that, but you can do it yourself using the information I provided!” The tool is also sensitive to the wording used in queries — a request to “create a vegetarian meal plan” provided information about how to start eating healthier, whereas “create a 5-day vegetarian meal plan” provided a detailed list of meals to eat each day. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to keep pace with Microsoft and the success of ChatGPT. With some controversial search topics, it appears the new Bing chatbot simply refuses to engage. But when I asked the chatbot, “when is the next election in Kings County, NY?” it returned information about the November election last year. Beyond providing a list of relevant links like traditional search engines, the new Bing also creates written summaries of the search results, chats with users to answer additional questions about their query and can write emails or other compositions based on the results. Microsoft [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) also announced an updated version of its Edge web browser with the new Bing capabilities built in. [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) — which is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI — envisions, one where users are accompanied by a sort of “co-pilot” around the web to help them better synthesize information.

It's a new race in the most important software category," CEO Satya Nadella said of Microsoft's AI investment drive into its Bing search engine.

Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.

Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft, and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a joint interview on Tuesday that they expected these issues to be ironed out over time. Type in a prompt — say, “Write me a menu for a vegetarian dinner party” — and the left side of your screen fills up with the standard ads and links to recipe websites. (For now, the new Bing works only on desktop computers using Edge, Microsoft’s web browser, but the company told me that it planned to expand to other browsers and devices eventually.) When the new Bing works, it’s not just a better search engine. The implications for the future [could be profound](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-artificial-intelligence&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). The new Bing, which is available only to a small group of testers now and will become more widely available soon, looks like a hybrid of a standard search engine and a GPT-style chatbot. tools of its own](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/google-bard-ai-chatbot.html).) Microsoft eventually plans to incorporate OpenAI’s technology into many of its products. But for some, [image generators are worrisome](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-artificial-intelligence&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). If it works, it could chip away at Google’s dominance and some of the more than $100 billion in annual search advertising revenue that comes with it. (Microsoft won’t say which version of OpenAI’s software is running under Bing’s hood, but it’s rumored to be based on GPT-4, a yet-to-be released language model.) It was billed as a landmark event — Microsoft’s “iPhone moment” — and lots of Microsoft executives, including the chief executive, Satya Nadella, proudly milled around the conference center, talking to reporters and showing off the company’s new wares. I felt a similar sense of awe this week when I started using the new, A.I.-powered Bing.

Microsoft's use of the artificial intelligence used in ChatGPT to disrupt the internet search market is set to demolish the high profit margins that have ...

Microsoft said that Bing users would, after their initial searches on the new system, have to join a waiting list to access “the full experience” of the service. The use of language AI to supplement or even replace internet searches has raised the prospect of sharply higher costs for search companies. Google has said it would launch its own chatbot and add AI features to its search engine.